Connect Care Manual - Prescriber Experience / CMIO Contacts

CMIO Team Contacts

This section contains information on the roles and members of the CMIO Prescriber Experience and Medical Informatics and PRAXIS Clinical Informatics Teams, so prescribers can find who can directly assist with an issue in their particular zone, site, and specialty. Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs or Site MILs) can be found in the last section, "Zone and Site Contacts".

CMIO Role Descriptions (click to expand/collapse)

Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO): Leads the team in the Chief Medical Information Office, providing executive direction on strategy, policy, governance, and partnerships that support continuous improvement of content, workflows, efficiency, and satisfaction of prescribers using Connect Care across Alberta
Associate Chief Medical Information Officers (ACMIOs): One per zone; oversee Connect Care prescriber needs at a zone level
Physician Design Leads (PDLs): Associated with Clinical Systems Improvement (CSI) teams; provincial prescriber subject matter experts on enterprise-wide system build/workflow
Provincial Medical Informatics Leads (PMILs): Lead digital transformation at the provincial and specialty level; focus on enhancing clinical systems through workflow optimization, system design, and evidence-based improvements; engage with clinicians and central teams through CSIs to drive system-wide changes
Program Chief Medical Information Officers (PCMIOs): Oversee Connect Care prescriber needs at a program level
Senior Medical Informatics Advisors (SMIAs): Associated with zonal teams; provide expertise, coordination and management of prescriber needs and issues at the zone and site level
Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Associated with specific CSI teams; experts on both new hire and optimization prescriber training and available training resources
Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Associated with CSI teams; lead the development, stewardship, and optimization of specialty prescriber content and workflows in partnership with PMILs; apply provincial clinical and informatics standards to specialty practice, and collaborate with CORe Leads, Nursing Knowledge Leads, and other COIO colleagues to co-design multidisciplinary content and workflows
- - SACIs - Inquiry Support: Help clinicians and teams translate clinical questions into Connect Care inquiry tools and reporting requirements; support the use and interpretation of clinical information to evaluate care, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen a learning health system
  - SACIs - Patient Informatics: Lead the development and stewardship of patient-facing information and education materials within Connect Care; partner with clinical teams to translate clinical knowledge into clear, accessible content that supports patients’ understanding, participation in care and informed decisions
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Associated with zonal teams; experts on prescriber training and provide direct end user support
Site Medical Informatics Lead (SMILs or Site MILs): Drive digital health initiatives at the local/site level; focus on identifying and advocating for support tailored to local needs; act as visible advocates and communication bridge for frontline staff
CMIO Master Builders: Design, prototype, and test Connect Care solutions for prescriber needs (often complex); mentors for Connect Care Builder program
CMIO Builders: Bridge clinical and technical teams to facilitate solutions for prescriber needs and promote good clinical information system (CIS) design and use

General Contacts (click to expand/collapse)

Clinician Manual requests (e.g., broken link, incorrect content): CMIO.Manual@healthsharedservices.ca
CMIO inquiries: CMIO@healthsharedservices.ca
Training help: Help.CMIO@healthsharedservices.ca
General help: http://help.connect-care.ca
Prescriber communication requests:
- - CMIO Editorial Board internal intake form (for those in AHS, HSS, or other provincial health agency/corporation; login needed): https://forms.microsoft.com/r/TmhxqgzGb1
  - CMIO Editorial Board external intake form (for anyone else): https://forms.microsoft.com/r/6PxUL4Et0n
    - - Note: There is no ability to add attachments to the external form, please email any associated documents to CMIO.Manual@healthsharedservices.ca.

Provincial Design Contacts (click to expand/collapse)

Note that the Physician Design Leads (PDLs) are listed below twice, first within their respective Clinical Systems Improvement (CSI) Team(s), and then alphabetically with their portfolio assignments.

Clinical Systems Improvement (CSI) Teams

- Cancer Care
  - - Physician Design Leads (PDLs): Dr. Tim Graham (Primary), Dr. Simrit Brar, Dr. Alan Sobey
    - Provincial Medical Informatics Leads (PMILs): Dr. Tony Truong, Dr. Kelvin Young
    - Program Chief Medical Information Officer (PCMIO): Dr. Roger Tsang
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Jackie Ruszkowski, Ashley Melenka
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Annie Miao, Candice Healey, Courtney Scott, France Singleton; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support); Heather Gallant (Patient Informatics)
- Capacity Management
  - - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Cathy Le, Alanna Siebert
- Cardiovascular
  - - PDL: Dr. Darren Hudson
    - PMIL: Dr. Sandeep Aggarwal
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Lauren McGowan, Zuzana Turakova-Baran
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Danielle Belliveau, Sarah Woelders; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support); Carly Kee (Patient Informatics)
- Children's Health
  - - PDL: Dr. Bruce Wright
    - PMILs: Dr. Chris Andrews, Dr. Edwin Bolster
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Lindsay Huseby, Jackie Ruszkowski
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Agnes Tao, Karin Domier, Shantel Cunningham; Ashley Woytuik (Inquiry Support); Yvette Debrecen (Patient Informatics)
- Continuing Care
  - - PDL: Dr. Jacques Branch
    - PMILs: Dr. Mark Cahill, Dr. Lawrence Lee, Dr. Diana Turner
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Lindsay Huseby, Alanna Siebert
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Mia Trillanes, Patricia Blas; Hector Mantolino (Inquiry Support); Yvette Debrecen (Patient Informatics)
- Correctional Health
  - - PDL: Dr. Jacques Branch
    - Correctional Health Services Delegate: Duncan Stewart MacLennan
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Ashley Melenka, Dawn Gobin
    - Senior Advisor, Clinical Informatics (SACI): Nadia Virani
- Critical Care
  - - PDLs: Dr. Darren Hudson (Primary), Dr. Alan Sobey
    - PMILs: Dr. Selena Au, Dr. Ehab Eshtaya, Dr. Daniel Garros, Dr. Jack Rabi
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Lauren McGowan, Andries Postmus
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Cory Burdock, Jennifer Jaros, Tamara Acheson; Ashley Woytuik (Inquiry Support); Carly Kee (Patient Informatics)
- Diagnostic Imaging
  - - PDL: Dr. Alan Sobey
    - PMIL: Dr. Bernice Lau
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Dawn Gobin, Cari Gibbons
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Louise Rainey; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support); Yvette Debrecen (Patient Informatics)
- Emergency & EMS
  - - PDL: Dr. Bruce Wright
    - PMILs: Dr. Nicholas Arrotta, Dr. Kate Brockman, Dr. Chris Hall, Dr. Lanette Prediger, Dr. Troy Turner
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Tim Bulger, Andries Postmus
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Erika Loewen, Sarah Searle, Nadia Virani; Aine Brislane (Inquiry Support); Sarah Petersen (Patient Informatics)
- Indigenous Health
  - - PDL: Dr. Simrit Brar
    - PMIL: Dr. Jennifer Ngo
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Harpreet Bains, Chris Klotz
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Amanda Rose; Leila Yaskiw (Inquiry Support); Amy McKinnon (Patient Informatics)
- Lab
  - - PDL: Dr. Ella Rokosh
    - PMILs: Dr. Dean Tung, [vacant]
    - PCMIO: Dr. Kristen Brown
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Harpreet Bawa, Dawn Gobin
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Stacey Grose; Ashley Woytuik (Inquiry Support); Amy McKinnon (Patient Informatics)
- Medicine
  - - PDLs: Dr. Marinus van der Westhuizen (Primary), Dr. Rob Hayward
    - PMILs: Dr. Timothy Chan, Dr. Alex Chee, Dr. Maggie Lee, Dr. Nikhil Shah, Dr. Amirali Surmawala, Dr. Karen Wong
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Chris Klotz, Alanna Siebert, Whitney Schimanski, Cathy Le (Lumens), Harpreet Bawa (Lumens)
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Dayna Kliachik, Kimberley Philpott, Lindsay DaSilva, Sarah McNeill; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support - Lumens), Hector Mantolino (Inquiry Support - Transplant); Heather Gallant (Patient Informatics)
- Mental Health & Addictions
  - - PDL: Dr. Jacques Branch
    - PMIL: Dr. Sudhakar Sivapalan
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Harpreet Bains, Cari Gibbons
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Josh Moser, Melissa Hawirko; Jessica Chatelain (Inquiry Support); Sarah Petersen (Patient Informatics)
- Neuroscience & Stroke
  - - PDL: Dr. Darren Hudson
    - PMILs: Dr. Daniel Fok, Dr. Chris Hahn
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Harpreet Bawa, Andries Postmus
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Ja-Neen Simmie; Ashley Woytuik (Inquiry Support); Sarah Petersen (Patient Informatics)
- Patient Access
  - - PDLs: Dr. Jacques Branch (community), Dr. Simrit Brar (specialist)
    - Senior Advisor, Medical Informatics: Cari Gibbons
    - Senior Advisor, Clinical Informatics (SACI): Anna Wolska
- Pharmacy
  - - PDL: Dr. Ella Rokosh
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Jackie Ruszkowski, Alanna Siebert
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Christine Ondro, Jane Ward, Kimberly Jurlina, Leanne Fong; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support); Sarah Petersen (Patient Informatics)
- Population & Public Health
  - - PDL: Dr. Tim Graham
    - PMIL: Dr. Joshua Jones
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Zuzana Turakova-Baran, Alanna Siebert
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Michael Yano, Rebecca Stack; Hector Mantolino (Inquiry Support); Amy McKinnon (Patient Informatics)
- Primary Care
  - - PDL: Dr. Jacques Branch
    - PMILs: Dr. Fraser Armstrong, Dr. Marili Van Der Merwe
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Cathy Le, Whitney Schimanski
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Amanda Rose; Catherine Webster (Inquiry Support); Heather Gallant (Patient Informatics)
- Surgery
  - - PDL: Dr. Alan Sobey
    - PMILs: Dr. Adam Spencer, Dr. Glen Vajcner, Dr. Caleb Zavitz
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Kate Bouska, Whitney Schimanski
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Jessica de Guzman Castillo, Katrina Percival, Ruby Gill; Ashley Woytuik (Inquiry Support); Carly Kee (Patient Informatics)
- Women's Health
  - - PDL: Dr. Simrit Brar
    - PMILs: Dr. Modupe Omole, Dr. Nicole Panich, Dr. Aaron Pink, Dr. Rachel Wang
    - Senior Advisors, Medical Informatics: Kate Bouska, Cathy Le
    - Senior Advisors, Clinical Informatics (SACIs): Alexandra Morrison, Dallas Belbeck; Aine Brislane (Inquiry Support); Yvette Debrecen (Patient Informatics)

PDL Portfolio Assignments

- Dr. Jacques Branch: Portals (MyChart, Connect Care Provider Portal); NACPAG; Results Management/Routing; Referrals (sending); Rural Medicine (including ED)/Primary Care; Corrections
- Dr. Simrit Brar: Ambulatory; Referrals (receiving); Reports/Dashboards
- Dr. Tim Graham: TPAWG; Research (third-party data access); In Basket; Quality/Satisfaction (Arch Collaborative/Signal); Reports/Dashboards
- Dr. Rob Hayward: Clin Doc (synopses, care paths, flowsheets, scoring systems, navigators, transition planning, DQI, provincial templates, Smart objects); Master Builder Medical Lead; Reports/Dashboards; Clinical Research Design
- Dr. Darren Hudson: Critical Care; Downtime/Recovery; Mobility; Speech Recognition; Devices; Videos; AI; Reports/Dashboards
- Dr. Ella Rokosh: CDS; Prescriber Content, Standards and Practice Committee
- Dr. Alan Sobey: Surgery; MOAs; Procedure Pass; Anaesthesia; Lumens; Clinical Research Design
- Dr. Marinus van der Westhuizen: Inpatient, Med Reconciliation; Patient Movement/IFTs; ROP (Required Org. Practices); Clin Doc (problem-oriented charting, provider teams, patient lists); Day Med/Therapy Plans; Continuing Care Ordering
- Dr. Bruce Wright: Training/Education; CMIO Editorial Board; eSafety; Roles and Permissions; Medical Learners; Prescriber Content, Standards and Practice Committee

Zone and Site Contacts (click to expand/collapse)

North Zone

North Zone Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO): Dr. Marc Shaw, cmio.nz@healthsharedservices.ca
Senior Medical Informatics Advisor (SMIA): Anna Moore
Senior Advisors: Dawn Gobin (Primary), Harpreet Bawa
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Richard Littleton (Primary), Shereen Grubb
North Zone Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs):
- - Areas 1 & 2 (High Level, La Crete, Fort Vermilion, Manning, Peace River, Fairview, Grimshaw)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Temitope Olufolaji
  - Areas 3 & 4 (Spirit River, Beaverlodge, Hythe, Grande Cache, Valleyview, Fox Creek, Jasper, Hinton, Edson, Whitecourt, Mayerthorpe)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Noel Corser
  - Areas 5 & 6 (Westlock, Barrhead, Redwater, Swan Hills, McLennan, High Prairie, Slave Lake, Wabasca/Desmaris)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Marili Van Der Merwe
  - Areas 7 & 8 (Athabasca, Boyle, Smoky Lake, Lac La Biche, Cold Lake, Bonnyville, Elk Point, St. Paul)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Dean Hanson
  - Area 9 (Grande Prairie)
    - - All specialties:
  - Area 10 (Fort McMurray)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Eugene Marais

Edmonton Zone

Edmonton Zone Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO): cmio.ez@healthsharedservices.ca
Senior Medical Informatics Advisor (SMIA): Aalia Damani
Senior Advisors: Jackie Ruszkowski (Primary), Zuzana Turakova-Baran
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Shereen Grubb (Primary), Jaycee Arbour
Edmonton Zone Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs):
- - Cross Cancer Institute (CCI)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Jay Easaw
  - Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Rakesh Dewan
  - Grey Nuns Community Hospital
    - - All specialties: Dr. Miguel Bussiere
  - Misericordia Community Hospital
    - - All specialties: Dr. Joshua Bezanson
  - Royal Alexandria Hospital (RAH)
    - - Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency: Dr. Stuart Rosser
      - Procedural specialties: Dr. Alan Sobey
  - Stollery Children’s Hospital
    - - All specialties: Dr. Vijay Anand
  - Sturgeon Community Hospital (SCH)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Chu Yang Lin
  - University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
    - - Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency: Dr. Nicholas Arrotta, Dr. Rob Hayward
      - Procedural specialties: Dr. Bryan Dicken
  - Suburban Hospital Sites
    - - All specialties: Dr. Mohit Vohra
  - [Under recruitment: KEC, AHE, and Continuing Care, LTC, Seniors, HC]

Central Zone

Central Zone Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO): Dr. Hannes Conradie, cmio.cez@healthsharedservices.ca
Senior Medical Informatics Advisor (SMIA): Anna Moore
Senior Advisors: Harpreet Bawa (Primary), Dawn Gobin
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Jaycee Arbour (Primary), Richard Littleton
Central Zone Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs):
- - Central North West
    - - All specialties: Dr. Kevin Yang
  - Central South West
    - - All specialties: Dr. Mark Wylie
  - Red Deer and Sylvan Lake
    - - All specialties: Dr. Jared Patterson
  - Rural North East
    - - All specialties: Dr. Amit Dhillon

Calgary Zone

Calgary Zone Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO): Dr. Karmon Helmle, cmio.caz@healthsharedservices.ca
Senior Medical Informatics Advisor (SMIA): Sarah Kemper
Senior Advisors: Cathy Le (Primary), Chris Klotz
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Allison Fyfe (Primary), Caralee Anderson
Calgary Zone Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs):
- - Peter Lougheed Center (PLC)
    - - Medical Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency: Dr. Peter Davids
      - Surgery, Procedures, Critical Care: Dr. Kenton Rommens
  - Foothills Medical Center (FMC)
    - - Medical Inpatient & Ambulatory: Dr. Eric Leung
      - Surgery, Anesthesia, Procedures: Dr. Eva Thiboutot
  - South Health Campus (SHC)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Pavan Ahluwalia
  - Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Dominica Gidrewicz
  - Rockyview General Hospital (RGH)
    - - Medical Inpatient, Ambulatory, Emergency: Dr. Denise Watt
  - Richmond Road Diagnostic and Treatment Center (RRDTC)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Vicky Parkins
  - Arthur Child Cancer Care Centre (ACCC)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Sylvia McCulloch
  - Continuing Care, Supportive Living, Home Care
    - - All specialties: Dr. Maria Malagon
  - Community and Rural
    - - All specialties: Dr. Lindsay Annand
  - Addictions & Mental Health
    - - All specialties: Dr. Julia Kirkham
  - Data & Analytics
    - - All specialties: Dr. Omar Khan

South Zone

South Zone Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO): Dr. Bilal Mir, cmio.sz@healthsharedservices.ca
Senior Medical Informatics Advisor (SMIA): Anna Moore
Senior Advisors: Andries Postmus (Primary), Whitney Schimanski
Provincial Nurse Practitioner (NP) Leads: Caralee Anderson (Primary), Allison Fyfe
South Zone Site Medical Informatics Leads (SMILs):
- - Lethbridge
    - - All specialties: Dr. Pavan Kumar, Dr. Kevin Martin
  - Rural Southeast (including Brooks, Bassano, Oyen)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Christine Zwiegers
  - Rural Southwest (including Taber)
    - - All specialties: Dr. Hollis Roth
  - Medicine Hat
    - - All specialties: Dr. Vince DiNinno